The American journal of the medical sciences
A nineteenth-century American medical periodical, issued in the 1820s by a Philadelphia-area publisher for physicians and medical students. Its plates are plain black-and-white engravings: a dissected heart on a block, specimen sketches with numbered keys, a caduceus shield bearing the motto 'Quae prosunt omnibus', and a library bookplate showing a draped figure holding a light beneath the motto 'Lux et lex'. A designer could draw on their dense hatching, labelled diagrams and emblematic shield and bookplate devices for vintage medical or academic identity work.
